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Starr County, Texas

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet TX427 · Starr County 11 sys · 2,339 viol · #747/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-SW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 24.7% health
  • RANK-UPPER #747/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 57.1% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 82%
  • SYS-SMALL 11 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Collin County (+ 0 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Starr County ranks #747 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #54 of 254 counties in Texas. See methodology · corpus placement.

Starr County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 100.0% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 24.7% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 57.1% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #747 of 3,254 · #54 of 254 in Texas.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Starr County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Starr County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Howard · lowest Bee · highest Hidalgo · near Guadalupe · near 66.7% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
City of Roma 19,464 296 Detected
City of Rio Grande City 18,912 76 Detected
City of la Grulla 9,500 222 Clean
Rio WSC 6,639 168 Detected
Union WSC 5,793 64 Detected
Falcon Rural WSC 3,600 143 Clean
El Tanque WSC 3,000 54 -
El Sauz WSC 2,223 278 Clean
San Isidro Isd 227 106 -
Ibwc Falcon Village 48 554 -
1017 Cafe 25 378 -

Compare beyond Texas

Mid-flagged peers for Starr County

Cross-state counties nearest Starr County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (2,339). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

4 peers

Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

4 peers
Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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